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...ring in orange derby, tie and wig, his red putty nose outlined against a blue night sky. Critics last week admired Curry's feat (as difficult as the Passing Leap) of getting the circus' gaudy, pastel colors in oils. Circus action gave play to his potent, compact drawing, his flair for packing a lot of disorganized life into a close-knit composition...
...Compact, dynamic, blue-eyed "Lion" Arturo Alessandri, president in 1920-25, owes his nickname to his rich, deep voice, his leonine platform personality. Not a buccaneering South American dictator, he has just been constitutionally elected (TIME, Nov. 7). Also he wrote most of the Constitution, adopted in 1925 and since then trampled on by Chilean dictators galore. The inauguration of President Alessandri last week meant a return from Chilean chaos (which produced ten Chilean regimes in the past 18 months) to normal, civilian rule. But after such upheavals even a "normal" president must make concessions to the mob, especially since...
...American Academy of Optometry in Chicago last week was Dr. William Feinbloom's method of restoring vision to the 98% blind. Two out of five blind people can see 2%. Heretofore they have been able to read books, magazines and newspapers only with the help of compact field glasses which they wore as spectacles. Such telescopic spectacles both magnify the print (the optical effect) and seem to bring it closer to the eyes (the psychological effect). Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with moving objects. Nothing seems to be where...
...delegates to the Farmers' National Relief Conference. ¶ Heard Pennsylvania's Beck deliver a scholarly lecture on methods of amending the Constitution. ¶ Received from New York's O'Connor an amendment to the 1929 Reapportionment Act requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local...
...footballers have expected for several years: disintegration of the Southern Conference. Alabama, Auburn. Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt resigned, formed a new group to be called the Southeastern Conference. Reason: ". . . In our judgment the time has arrived for a more compact organization for the administration of athletics ... on geographical lines." Colleges left in the Southern Conference: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Virginia. Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Washington...